Before surgery I think I had reached a tipping point. That is a point at which if I hadn't lost weight I would have gotten sicker and sicker and then eventually died from being overweight. I had a mild heart condition that would have gotten worse if my blood pressure would have continued to be high and a fatty liver and I couldn't walk very far without a lot of pain. And my blood sugar was a little high and I weighed 240 lbs.

I think I have reached the tipping point again going back the other way. I have lost 34 lbs now (almost 15% of my body weight and about 30% of my excess weight - in about 2 months.) I have noticed that my knees don't start to hurt as fast as they did before. I can now walk about a mile (even though it still hurts a little toward the end). I can go up the stairs faster now and without having to hang onto the rail and pull myself up. I can stand and cook and clean in the kitchen now without getting tired right away and walk around the house and clean up. And the other day I started dancing again. I used to dance around all the time. I danced through 2 songs. About 7 or 8 minutes. I find this awesome and it can only get better the more weight I lose.

Congrats to you! I think this is great progress. Wishing you continued success!

You are doing really great. Good for you for making such progress and to keep pushing yourself when walking. Pretty soon you'll look up and realize you've walked even farther than a mile. Very very good job!

I could not agree more!!!!! I've lost almost 75 pounds and I can't believe the kind of energy I have now. What happened??? I can't believe it got that bad, but I am so thankful to have my spunk back!

Well, I wanted to go get a Power Ball lottery ticket. Just one - and I walked the 1.16 mile round trip to the convenience store. I found out about an app for my Android phone that uses the GPS to map your walk. It's an app called mapmywalk.

Awesome! Keep up the good work! I'm so happy for you!

I can totally relate to the dancing. I used to dance in many of my highschool cultural events and interschool competitions. But as I gained a lot of weight during my college years, I stopped dancing completely. As I have lost more than 100lbs now, I feel lighter and am able to dance again. It feels AMAZING! :)

congrats!

Congratulations!